He may be right. He's lied so often that it's hard to trust anything he's saying. But let's just say he's right about the way he and his Secretary of War are running operations in Central America, picking off boats along the shore like fish in a barrel. Let's just say that each of these blasted boats were loaded to the gills with drugs. Let's just say that their pay for their grunt work in the drug trade is being picked up by someone or another in these United States. . . let's just say it's all true and Hegseth isn't the creep he presents himself to be. Let's just call them all saints.
I don't care. There's still every reason to believe that Donald E. Trump has been the most heinous American President in the whole line of succession. We've never, ever had someone in the Oval Office who's even hinted at outright hate the way the Orange man has and does. Yesterday, it was the Somalians, especially those from Minnesota: “We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.”
We've never had a Chief of State who called an entire ethnic group of people "garbage." But as long as he'd delivered that madness, he figured, well, katy, bar the door. He went after Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali American congresswoman, duly elected, a “fraud” who “shouldn’t be allowed to be a congresswoman.”
All of this just yesterday from evangelical Christianity's President, a jerk who called the mayor of Minneapolis "a fool" for being proud of the state's considerable Somali population.
Great guy.
Oh, yeah--and on another track, Trump decided, for reasons all his own, to pardon the former President of Honduras, who was in prison here having been convicted of running drugs--cocaine--from his own oval office. Convicted. Tried and convicted--and Trump frees him when he spends a quarter-million every time he blows up a boat in the Caribbean for doing--if we believe our President--what former President Juan Orlando Hernández was not just accused, but convicted of doing out of his own back door.
Does that make any sense?
And then there's this--a note from JoAnne Van Engen, who's lived in Honduras for the last 25 years of her life, and, with the ASJ makes it a habit to run in the face of political corruption.
Trusted poling showed Honduras's Liberal party with a ten-point lead over the National party candidate, with the government candidate a distant third.
Here's part of her report on that nation's Presidential election, held a week or so ago:
That lead was erased when President Trump tweeted his support of Asfura last Wednesday, warning Hondurans that the US would withdraw all support if Asfura did not win. Many worried Hondurans decided to switch their vote to Asfura. Twenty-four hours later, President Trump tweeted that he would pardon Honduras’ ex-president, Juan Orlando Hernandez who had been convicted of drug trafficking in the US and was serving a long sentence in a US federal prison. (Juan Orlando was released from prison today).
Aside from the kind of meddling that has created "the ugly American," Trump pardons a convicted, crooked pol who dealt in cocaine smuggling in a fashion that makes those little boats look like a computer game.
Does that make any sense? Only in Trump's orbit, which is--thank goodness--growing smaller every week.
3 comments:
Stay Ornery!
Do unto others A YOU would have them do unto YOU.
I don’t feel obligated to answer every blog with a comment. However, I feel somewhat compelled to offer a few words on your latest political comments. I can’t offer the encouragement to “stay ornery” like one of your readers, but neither do I feel compelled to defend the words and actions of our sitting president. Truth be told, there are many times I feel embarrassed by the ad hominem/personal attacks which are often his first line of defense when he feels cornered. I’m also embarrassed and prone to righteous anger when he lies, engages in frequent hyperbole, ill-tempered comments, empty threats, misogyny, and racial prejudice - all the while never reflecting a smidgeon of humility or admission of wrongdoing (whether past or present) as a self-professed “evangelical” Christian. And so, I’m there with you Jim.
However, I’d like to offer some advice and encouragement, and I say this respectfully. You are not at your best when you delve into present political scene. You appear often embittered and resentful, and at times I find you engage in the very ad hominem attacks as our president (orange man/jerk). I’m frustrated too, and apart from a few “ra ra” comments of your readers, I don’t think the political conversation is elevated nor I find matters for prayer or suggestions for change other than “Thank God, Trump’s orbit is growing smaller every week.”
You are a gifted writer and as a writer of many published works you a prophet in the land. In these times, we need not just an observant but prophetic voice - a clarion voice that lifts us up, offers salient insights, forceful arguments, and above all, the hope that one day, we may have a president who not only offers consistent just and common sense solutions to the many problems that face our nation, but above all, a president who is a man after God’s own heart.
Just my humble thoughts as one who, on the whole, very much appreciates your blogs. Keep writing, please.
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